fabricated
Americanadjective
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made by art or skill and labor.
For the staircases, the ceramics manufacturer supplied a specially fabricated porcelain tile resembling natural stone.
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made by assembling parts or sections.
Plywood is a fabricated wood board made of three or more panels of wood veneer laid one on top of another.
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(of a lie, story, excuse, etc.) devised or invented.
That is a wholly fabricated allegation without any foundation whatsoever.
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faked or forged.
Scientists reported that the fabricated fossil had been made up of parts of a primitive bird and a dinosaur, glued together by a farmer.
verb
Other Word Forms
- quasi-fabricated adjective
- unfabricated adjective
- well-fabricated adjective
Etymology
Origin of fabricated
First recorded in 1770–80; fabricate + -ed 2 ( def. ) for the adjective senses; fabricate + -ed 1 ( def. ) for the verb sense
Example Sentences
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“This allegation is entirely false and fabricated,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement after the Financial Times report was released.
From Salon
For litigators, it has created a new imperative: ferreting out citations that have been fabricated by AI bots in their own court filings — and their adversaries’.
From Los Angeles Times
The company plans to ship its first orders of the chips—which are fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.—in the months ahead.
The Syrian foreign ministry denounced the attack as "an outrageous assault on Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity" and called Israel's justification "flimsy pretexts and fabricated excuses".
From BBC
“These defendants allegedly fabricated documents, staged bogus equipment to pass audit inventories, and used a pass-through company to conceal their misconduct and true clientele list,” federal prosecutors said.
From MarketWatch
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